Moshe A. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Moshe A., who was born in Ložín, Czechoslovakia in 1918. He recalls living in Vranov; his father's dental practice; his assimilated home, although his grandparents were religious; attending gymnasium in Michalovce; antisemitic harassment; attending Hebrew gymnasium in Mukacheve; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; infrequent visits home when his family moved to Pezinok; attending university in Prague in 1936; returning home in 1938; eight months on a hachsharah, training to emigrate to Palestine; leading a Zionist youth group in Bratislava; a failed attempt to emigrate to Palestine; forced construction labor for the Germans in 1941 in Liptovský Hrádok; sabotaging the work; teaching in a Jewish school in Podolinec; working in a notary's office in 1943, from which he obtained blank birth certificates and wedding licenses to use for false papers for Jews; visiting his girlfriend in Poprad; encountering a former friend who was a Hlinka guard; joining his parents in Bánovce; obtaining papers as a non-Jew; hiding with non-Jewish neighbors; being assigned to leave for Hungary at a Hashomer Hatzair meeting in Nové Mesto; traveling with Polish refugees from Prešov to Budapest in January 1944; and German invasion in March.

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